The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-17

o"''SoAoh' Cuiiuoo tuc year blcI0 WCTc
$3.50, 900 notes issued, representing an
amount Of f81, 300, 900; there were can
celled, 6,711,613. notes, representing an
amount of Egg, ,731, 200. There were
destroyed, 21,658,5 566 notes, represent
ing an amount of f161, 12s, ,032; and
there were withdrawn from circulation,
12,076,3O0. The manufactory of the
Bank at Biercy produced 9,6S9, 900
notes, of which more than half were
notes of fifty francs (f2). The growth
OF the circulation requiring an increased
production of notes, fresh buildings
were erected fitted with every improve
ment, and capable of meeting all the
demands likely to be made.
The transactions in connection with
the deposits of securities form con-
siderable portion of the services rem
dered by the bank. The business at
tached to this is of three kinds-the free
deposits, the deposits as guarantees,
and the securities deposited by the syn
dicate of stockholders. The general
operations in all these divisions were
4,643, ,34S in number. There were de-
posted in the safes at Paris 1888, ,281
securities, the value of which a.
mounted to f12O, 1850, 900 represent
ing 251,582 deposits brought by
44,S69 depositors. OF the first kind
of deposit-the free deposit - the
number of securities in the safes at
Paris was 2, ,s9S, 252-representing Esq.,
92S, 500, of 1,677 different descriptions,
belonging to 31,157 depositors. Dur
ing the year, 10000 persons called al
the bank in connection with these
| securities. Only three branches-those
at Bordeaux, Lyons and Marseilles-
appear as having carried on any oper-
| ations in connection with the deposits
| of securities. The branches trans
mitted to the chief office 99,116 cou-
| pons. The amount of the charges for
custody of valuables at Paris reached
f35, 5,617; and at the three branches
enumerated, 1881; and, as the report
goes on to say, these charges are
trifling recompense for the expense and
the responsibilities which the under
taking these duties imposes on the bank.
| The branches, of which there are
ninety-four, are classified according to
the Importance of the business done at
each during the year. Placed in order
according to the extent of their oper-
ations, numbers are affixed agains,
them to show the order in which each
branch stands in respect of the profits.
The branches at Bordeaux, Mar
seilles, Lyons, Havre, Lille and
Rouen, stand in the first rank as re-
CARDS the Importance of their oper-
ations; bu1 respectively first, second,
/ fifth, third, fourth, and tenth in respect
of their profits. The largest net profits
(E72,717) were realized at Marseilles;
the smallest (f2O at Digne; and five
branches showed loss. One of these,
Barbecue, stands forty-fourth in re-
spect of its operations, but shows loss
of f137. La Roche-sur-Y Yon shows the
highest loss (f660.
/ The expenses connected with the
Bank at Paris amounted to f255, ,472;
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a general character, such as cost OF
transport of specie, duties and taxes,
f129,0 of which f99,4 4SS represents
taxes. The amount distributed among
the 25,7S2 shareholders was f7, rs. Cd.
per share. The buildings occupied by
the branches had cost f1, ,234, 1888; but
of this, there had been written of
fS57, ,5o3 The number of officials en-
ployed at Paris was about the same as
those employed by the Bank of England
in London Q,016); those engaged at
the branches numbered 1922.
There are great many more particu-
lars of less general interest in this very
interesting document, but we have
given sufficient for our readers to form
an idea of its nature. We can not bet
ter conclude than by adding the words
of the Council: 1--WE should have de-
sired to reduce the size of this state
ment; but it derives the greater part of
its interest and Importance from the
comparative figures with which it neces-
sarily bristles. and we have been COM
PEELED, to make it complete, to pass all
of them before your eyss. This is our
excuse. ~ Chambers Journal.